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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I don’t know if I agree with the content necessarily but do find it funny if I’m following right.

    When on the phone with an automated system, many of them will bypass to a real person if they hear certain phrases, “representative” being a very commonly used one. I think it’s saying the way you say representative reflects your true self, whether you just calmly repeat “representative”, or yell “REPRESENTATIVE” at the robot until someone picks up lol




  • My highschools psychology/Japanese teacher taught us the word Defenestration, and I don’t think I will ever forget it. My friend did something to REALLY piss his dad off one day, and he came to yell at him in his room upstairs, not knowing I was over. He came in and took a huge breath, saw me and pointed “Get your ass out of here before I throw you out of that window”. He didn’t need to elaborate further, I dipped out and left my friend to his fate. I gained the ability to talk about that time a 70 year old man threatened to defenestrate me though, so that’s pretty great!



  • Yeah that’s pretty much where I’m at. I joined my buddy in his wife’s Japanese club, but I know absolutely nothing. Trying Duolingo primarily to learn the alphabets. It’s not perfect, but I can recognize them all and read Hiragana, so it’s not completely worthless!

    Didn’t help me learn how to wite at ALL though. Too little practice, it’s definitely a tool (for some languages as least) that’s meant to be used with other learning methods